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San Gimignano is a tiny Tuscan hill town just an hour outside of Florence. People come to San Gimignano to enjoy its stone architecture and medieval towers; its museums and views — oh yes, and one particular gelato shop. San Gimignano is as touristy as Tuscany gets — but it’s still a fun place to visit. Planning your trip to San Gimignano last minute? San Gimignano is very popular, especially …

Rock and Jane in front of the picture window.All That Heaven Allows (1955). My second favorite Douglas Sirk film (after Imitation of Life with Lana Turner) stars Jane Wyman as Cary Scott, a wealthy widow in a New England town who falls in love with Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson), a younger man who works as a gardener. Their romance faces the disapproval of Cary’s snobbish children and her country club …

November 18, 2024 Tip of the Week How to Loop Against Deep, Heavy Backspin. MDTTC Open and My Books Here are the results of the MDTTC Open, held at my club this past weekend. Winning the Open was Stanley Hsu (2521), who recently turned 16. (He defeated MDTTC coach Bruno, rated 2558, in the final, 9,9,9.) In the semifinals were Mu Du (16, 2376) and Ryan Lin (just turned 15, …

Despite the best attempts to software to stop me, I recorded a take on Thom Yorke’s Black Swan which has been buzzing around my head the last few days. Your browser does not support the video element. I think this song and the rest of the album didn’t land properly for me when it was first released, but now I regularly come back to it. It’s understated compared to Radiohead …

Eagle-eyed followers and friends of The Archive will have noticed we have been quite quiet of late in publishing new newspaper pages to the site. This week, we are pleased to welcome new pages from the West Lancashire Evening Gazette to our collection, as we provide an update from the British Newspaper Archive HQ. Meanwhile, in all this week, we have added 5,396 brand new pages to our collection. Register …

Panel from the Dec. 26, 1965 edition of Our New Age by Athelstan Spilhaus (Novak Archive) We often think of the internet as a piece of infrastructure that cannot be changed. But people built the internet and all the devices we use to connect ourselves to it. People made conscious choices about the way we interact with our devices and the way that the internet is structured. And with that …

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1. Booleans are a trap : Booleans, while seemingly simple, can introduce complexity and limitations into domain modeling. When used to represent complex states, booleans can lead to unclear code and potential errors. To avoid these pitfalls, consider using enums or enum sets. These approaches provide a more expressive and maintainable way to model complex states in your applications.My Take: I wish I had learned this earlier in life. When …

In between stuff I've had a few roach off the tidal, lately on corn to get past the runts.Pre corn, and hardly a runt.Topped off by this one at 1lb 3oz. It's not quite so photogenic other side

Your browser does not support the video tag. Amazingly, that was the second fail after I upgraded my work machine to Sequioa. Initially I was greeted by this screen – I didn’t bother making a video, because you couldn’t have seen anything. Literally nothing was clickable: Not the More… links, not the checkbox, not the Cancel button. Nothing in the background window either, of course. I clicked and double-clicked on …

Novo Nordisk says it is gradually phasing out human insulin pens globally by Maggie Fick for Reuters.com, 14 November 2024. Novo Nordisk is gradually ending production of human insulin pens, as it spends billions to ramp up manufacturing of its popular obesity and diabetes injections. The company declined to comment on the timeline. “Globally (human insulin pens) will be phased out over time and human insulin will be available only …

It's been a few years since I wrote about my challenges with async/await-based systems and how they just seem to not support back pressure well. A few years later, I do not think that this problem has subsided much, but my thinking and understanding have perhaps evolved a bit. I'm now convinced that async/await is, in fact, a bad abstraction for most languages, and we should be aiming for something …

I continue my quest for distraction, working on the impromptu doodle sampler I mentioned in my last post. I still haven’t decided what it will bear, but right now I’m leaning towards the single word “RESIST.” Time will tell, but I’m already looking at typefaces. Warm and fuzzy/ultratraditional/edgy and threatening? All nuance the message and are under consideration. In the mean time I go back to my mail and comment …

Episode 153 of The Informed Life podcast features a conversation with distinguished UX design consultant, educator, and author Joe Natoli. Recently, Joe co-authored the second edition of Leah Buley’s classic book The User Experience Team of One. That was the subject of our conversation. Joe shifted from another discipline (graphic design) into web design early on, as I did. Back then, there was no “UX design” – the field emerged …